To find subtitles, you can visit the website of your choice and then download the video file needed. Once saved in the same file as the video, it can be opened with VLC.

VLC for Windows 8: Where's my option to open a music file? In terms of usability, VLC for Windows 8 is a bit of a mixed bag. It's fairly unpleasant to use with a mouse and keyboard.

Video files can contain a link to a separate subtitle file, which VLC automatically loads when it plays the video. An attacker could use the buffer overflow flaw in VLC to execute malicious code ...

For years, users have had to download a separate file, usually in the .srt format, to display subtitles for whatever videos they were watching unless the captions were already built-in.